Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
